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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1917
Page
11
The Harrisburg Telegraph discusses the 1917 Pennsylvania Legislature winding down with limited new laws but cautions on traffic projects and civil service policing. It urges prudent reform, highlights Dr. George R. Moffitt's service, and criticizes delays at the post office while noting civic duties and upcoming judicial petition processes.
The editorial calls for rapid and efficient municipal response to street traffic problems and police oversight. It notes street railway disputes are for the concerned corporations, with public support for practical solutions, and ends by praising Tom Daly's cherry pie poem and introducing Secretary Reeves arriving amid Boy Scout campaigns.
Captain Ian Hay Beith author of The First Hundred Thousand and Getting Together has sailed for England after a successful lecturing run across the western United States and the Pacific coast He plans to resume duties on the French front this summer and hopes to return in the fall to report on the European firing line Obstacles to Peace is being translated into Japanese and will soon appear in Japan Colonel James Morris Morgan recounts a hospital visit where wounded soldiers nearly die from excessive kindness as visitors wash and feed them per a hospital notice
The article notes six sevenths of Europe is in the war and most continents are involved. It lists Spain, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Denmark and Holland as out, while nearly all of Africa and Australia are in the Allied cause. It emphasizes global reach of conflict with a Twain quotation about naming peaceful states.
The Outlook argues for a massive Red Cross effort from America to support doctors and nurses at the front, aid soldiers families, protect troops after France deployment, combat tuberculosis, aid women and children in devastated areas, and send concrete help to Russia. It notes Canada gave sixteen million and urges America to donate two hundred million.
Across major New York papers the Liberty Loan is hailed as a strong shows of financial power and public support. Editors emphasize renewed enrollment for military service, patriotic spirit, and the entry of America's great democracy into the war with full strength.
A reader argues the United States must fully fund a medical corps with nurses doctors and equipment, paid from the Treasury rather than the Red Cross, to prevent unnecessary deaths. Another correspondent urges Hoover to curb food waste by restricting alcohol production and aligning grain aid with Britain and France, stressing national self denial and faith.
H. M. Brooks, business agent and organizer, praises Harrisburg carpenters who built Gettysburg barracks under 60 cents per hour base pay, time and a half overtime, double time Sundays. He notes Local 287 workers outperformed rivals from Philadelphia and Baltimore, plans to mobilize more for future jobs, and invites union members to federated meetings to improve conditions and raise the district’s profile.
The piece recalls Attila as Scourge of God who after killing his brother faced the Goths and lost many followers to steel. Attila dies from hemorrhage, and a quip hints at misfortune awaiting Granny, Bill, and the speaker. The Silent Partner quotes about gardening satire end the excerpt.
The piece portrays alcohol using “fine fellows” as charming but weak-willed, habitually delaying duty, relying on drinks to cope. As they drink more their nerve fades, duties slip, pay drops, and sober rivals may replace them, marking a downward slide from charm to collapse.
Fragmentary humor piece contrasts a father figure warning against idleness with a mocked motto of business before pleasure. The text appears as a satirical dialogue about wealth and ambition amid a time of plenty, with scattered OCR garble.
Wellsville hosts Rotarians who tour the town and learn of the Wellsville Whip Company and Wells ville Manufacturing Company. J Milligan notes daily output, while Richard Young funds civic gifts and a new schoolhouse. Public spirit and well kept streets reflect the town’s prosperity.
Well known people linked to Lancaster and Pittsburgh are noted: H Burd Cassell presented a memorial tablet in Donegal Church and once served as congressman for the Lancaster district. Frederick B Shipp of Pittsburgh Y M C A will join the association’s work in France. J W Henderson, head of Pittsburgh smoke bureau, pursues violators of the city smoke law. Reverend BE A Lemoine of Greensburg will work in a shell plant after army service rejection. George S Crampton leads National Guard field hospitals and has long served in the Guard.
In Historic Harrisburg the city is praised as an early responder to sanitary commission fundraising. The article lauds noble women across the nation for service and sacrifice, noting women working in Western fields while the author travels east.
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